Renata Salecl on Choice During a Pandemic 🌐

ASL version: https://youtu.be/TyZXc-fngAc

Wolf Humanities Center's 2020-21 Forum on Choice
November 18, 2020

Renata Salecl
Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Law, Birkbeck College, University of London

David L. Eng
Richard L. Fisher Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Should people be free to choose to wear masks? How are hospitals deciding whom to put on a ventilator and whom not? And why are some people choosing to get infected? Acclaimed philosopher and sociologist Renata Salecl examines freedom of choice in the current pandemic and asks why choice is so often anxiety provoking, how it relates to jealousy and envy, and how it can lead to aggression in times of social crisis.

For more information about this event: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/salecl